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Page last updated at 09:51 GMT, Wednesday, 21 January 2009

Nigerian militants
Tanker damaged in Nigeria attack
Nigerian militants badly damage a fuel tanker carrying tonnes of diesel and kidnap a Romanian crew member.
'Blood oil' dripping from Nigeria
Elusive peace in oil Delta
Inside Delta's 'ER' clinic

Map Uganda court keeps death penalty
Uganda's Supreme Court refuses to abolish the death penalty but says inmates should only be kept on death row for three years.

Heathrow Airport SA crew quizzed over drug haul
UK customs officers quiz the entire crew of a South African flight, after 50kg of drugs is found in luggage.

FEATURES, VIEWS, ANALYSIS
A Zimbabwea dollar note Zimbabwe diary
Hope for power-sharing dies as the dollar becomes king
A man holds a poster of US President-elect Barack Obama in Kogelo, Kenya (19/01/2009) 'New era'
Obama's Kenyan hometown set for celebrations
Safari Kakule (Image: Gorilla.cd) Cost of caring
DR Congo gorilla ranger shot dead in militia ambush

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Somali executed for 'apostasy'
Rwandan minister incited genocide
Walk-out closes Kenya's schools
Sharia police block women's rally
LRA rebels 'torch crowded church'
Gabon jail protest turns 'deadly'
Nigeria 'hostage rescue' denied

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Ivorians hail home-built buses
Staff shun Zimbabwe hospitals
Lesotho Aids clinic inundated
Nigeria's gas profits 'up in smoke'

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A peacekeeper in Liberia by Leslie Lumeh Peace paintings
First post-war art gallery for Liberia

A man checks his grain after receiving it through the UK charity Oxfam in Chirumhanzi, south east of Harare. Crunch time?
Coming days could hold key to Zimbabwe crisis
George W Bush in Tanzania in February 2008 Friend in need
Will George Bush leave his strongest legacy in Africa?
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Kenyan MPs to consider poll court
Copper thieves electrocuted in SA
Ex-rebels join CAR unity cabinet
'Dark day' as Zimbabwe talks fail
DR Congo cancels timber contracts
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